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The University of OXFORD

Note: Postcodes and telephone/fax numbers for individual Colleges will be found in Appendix E.


Faculty of Classics

The Faculty Board of Classics, with 2 sub-faculties (Ancient History with Classical Archaeology, Greek and Latin Languages and Literature). The Board and the sub-faculties have elected chairmen, who serve for short periods (2 or 3 years). Philosophy is now a separate Faculty; philosophers with interests in ancient philosophy are also members of the Classics Faculty and are included here.


Professors

Greek Christopher B.R. Pelling, MA, DPhil Christ Church Greek & Latin literature; historiography
Ancient History (Camden) Alan K. Bowman, MA, PhD (Tor), FBA Brasenose Roman history & papyrology
Ancient History (Wykeham) Robert C.T. Parker, MA, DPhil, FBA New College Greek history and religion
Classical Art/Archaeology Roland R.R. Smith, MA, MPhil, DPhil Lincoln Greek & Roman sculpture, portraits; Asia Minor
Comparative Philology (Diebold) Andreas Willi, MA, DPhil Worcester Greek dialects; Greek literary language; ancient sociolinguistics; etymology
European Archaeology Chris Gosden, MA, PhD (Sheffield) Keble European archaeology
Archaeology of the Roman Empire Andrew Wilson, MA, DPhil All Souls Roman archaeology; ancient economy; ancient technology
Ancient Philosophy Terence Irwin, MA (Oxon), PhD (Princeton) Keble Ancient philosophy; ethics (esp.history); Kant

College Tutorial Fellows and University Lecturers

All Souls

Andrew Wilson, MA, DPhil P (See under Professors)
James N. Adams, MA, PhD, FBA SRF Latin language and philology
Angelos Chaniotis, MA, Dr.phil (Heidelberg) SRF Greek history and epigraphy
Wolfgang de Melo, MA, DPhil JRF Latin syntax and semantics; functional grammar; language change; phonetics; phonology
Ben Gray, BA JRF Displacement and the polis; exile and expatriate communities; migrant and exiled philosophers

Balliol

Penelope Bulloch, MA, DPhil (Librarian) F Aristophanes; New and Roman comedy
Robert Cowan, MA, DPhil (Oxon) TF Latin literature, esp. epic and tragedy
Rosalind Thomas, MA, PhD (Lond.) TF Literacy and orality; Greek historiography; Greek law; Greek politics and society
Adrian Kelly, DPhil L Homer; early hexameter poetry; Athenian tragedy; Attic drama
Sanne Rishoj Christensen L Hellenistic poetry

Brasenose

Alan K. Bowman, MA, PhD (Tor), FBA P (See under Professors)
Llewelyn Morgan, MA, PhD TF Latin literature, esp. Virgil
Edward H. Bispham, MA, DPhil TF Ancient history; epigraphy; archaeology
Susan M. Treggiari, MA, DLitt, FAAAS FF Roman social history

Christ Church

Christopher B.R. Pelling, MA, DPhil P (See under Professors)
Dirk Obbink, MA, PhD TF Papyrology; Greek literature
Lindsay Judson, MA, DPhil TF Ancient philosophy, Aristotle
Richard B. Rutherford, MA, DPhil TF Homer, 5th century literature, rhetoric, historiography
Mark J. Edwards, MA, DPhil TF Plotinus; patristics
Anna J. Clark, MA (St. And.), DPhil TF Republican Rome; Roman topography
Elton Barker, BA (Leeds), PhD (Cantab) L Greek epic, tragedy, historiography; political thought

Corpus Christi

Ewen L. Bowie, MA SRF Early Greek elegiac and iambic poetry; Hellenistic poetry; Greek literary culture of the Roman Empire
J.R. Elsner, MA, PhD (Cantab) SRF Classical and late antique art; reception of ancient art; pilgrimage
John Ma, MA DPhil (Cantab) TF Greek, esp. Hellenistic, history; Asia Minor; epigraphy; the polis
Neil McLynn, MA, DPhil L Later Roman history
Helen Dixon, MA, DPhil L  
Tim J. G. Whitmarsh, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) TF Greek literature; literary and cultural theory
James Burbidge F Latin poetry

Exeter

Gregory O. Hutchinson, MA, DPhil P&TF Greek lyric and tragedy; Hellenistic poetry; Latin elegy; Silver Latin; Cicero
Ben Morison, MA, DPhil TF Ancient philosophy and logic

Jesus

Michael Vickers, MA, DLitt, (Wales), FSA P&SRF Mediterranean archaeology; Athenian drama
Armand D'Angour, MA, PhD (Lond.) TF Greek & Latin literature; Greek social & cultural history
Jan-MathieuCarbon JRF Greek epigraphy; sacred laws; Asia Minor
David Fearn, MA, DPhil CDF Greek lyric and its reception

Keble

Averil Cameron, MA, PhD (Lond.) The Warden Late Antique & Byzantine history and literature
Chris Gosden P (See under Professors)
Terence Irwin P (See under Professors)
Adrian S. Hollis, BPhil, MA SRF Latin & Hellenistic poetry
L. M. Bendall, DPhil L Aegean prehistory; Linear B
Eleni Kechagia, DPhil RF Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic philosophy, history and historiography of philosophy; Plutarch; Diogenes; Laertius

Lady Margaret Hall

Richard H.A. Jenkyns, MLitt, MA P & TF Latin poetry; classical tradition (esp. 19th cent.)
Simon R.F. Price, MA, DPhil TF Greek & Roman history & religions; Greek field survey
Christopher Shields, BA, MA (Bowling Green State), MA DPhil (Cornell) TF Ancient philosophy, esp. Plato, Aristotle & Stoicism

Lincoln

Roland R.R. Smith P (See under Professors)
Maria Stamatopoulou, DPhil TF Greek art and culture of 1st millennium BC; burial practices and funerary iconography; Thessaly
Niels Gaul, MA (Oxon), PhD (Bonn) RF Greek palaeography and codicology; material philology; Greek and Byzantine literature, esp. rhetoric and literary theory
Harry Sidebottom, MA, DPhil L Ancient warfare; historiography; art

Magdalen

Oliver P. Taplin, MA, DPhil, FBA P & TF Greek poetry, esp. epic & drama, their original and subsequent reception
Andrew Hobson, MA Grammatikos Greek & Latin languauge & grammar
Mark Pobjoy, MA, DPhil Senior Tutor Greek & Roman history; Republican Italy; Latin epigraphy
Alfonso Moreno, BA (Harvard), MSt, DPhil TF Greek economic & social history
Zena Kamash L Classical archaeology

Merton

John S. C. Eidinow, MA (Oxon) L Latin poetry of Augustan period, esp. Horace
Irene Lemos, MA, DPhil R Pre-Classical & Classical Greek archaeology; excavation
Jonathan R.W. Prag, MA (Oxon), PhD (Lond.) TF Roman history; Sicily; epigraphy
Rhiannon Ash, MA, DPhil TF Latin historiography; Tacitus; Silver Latin literature
Mary Whitby, MA (Oxon), PhD (Edin) L Greek literature of the 6th & 7th centuries AD
Henriette van der Blom, MSt L Late Republican Roman history, Cicero
Gail Fine, MA (Harvard), PhD (Harvard) SRF Ancient philosophy

New College

Robert C.T. Parker, MA, DPhil, FBA P (See under Professors)
Robin J. Lane Fox, MA R Greek and Roman history; Alexander the Great
Paolo Crivelli, MA (Florence), PhD (Pisa) TF Ancient philosophy, esp. Aristotle & Stoicism
Jane L. Lightfoot, MA, DPhil TF Hellenistic & imperial literature; Roman Near East; oracles
Georgy Kantor, MPhil JRF Political, social & institutional history of the early Roman Empire; Roman law; local law in Asia minor; epigraphy

Oriel

David O. Charles, MA, BPhil, DPhil P&SRF Aristotle; metaphysics; philosophy of mind
Bruno G.F. Currie, MA, MSt, DPhil TF Greek epic and lyric poetry; Greek religion
Teresa Morgan, MA, PhD (Cantab) TF History of education; cultural history; ethics; Early Church
Juliane Kerkhecker F&Grocyn Lecturer Greek & Latin language; Imperial Latin poetry; Greek orators
Jane Barton, MA, DPhil TF Ancinent philosophy, esp. Aristotle; ancient medicine

The Queen's College

Angus M. Bowie, MA, DPhil TF Literary theory; Herodotus; comedy; Greek anthropology; Virgil
Chris Collard, MA, MLitt L Greek tragedy, esp. Euripides; history of Classical scholarship
Annamaria Schiaparelli, MA, PhD (Padua) L Ancient philosophy
Victoria Moul, DPhil/PhD JRF Pindar; Horace; Virgil; reception & translation of Classical poetry; Renaissance neo-Latin poetry

St. Anne's

Roger Crisp, MA, DPhil TF Ancient philosophy; moral & political philosophy
Matthew Leigh, BA, DPhil (Oxon) P&TF Latin poetry, esp. Lucan; New Comedy; Livy

St. Hilda's

Rebecca Armstrong, DPhil TF Augustan poetry, esp. Virgil & Ovid
Katherine Clarke, MA, DPhil TF Roman and Hellenistic history; Strabo
Emily G.D. Kearns, MA, DPhil SRF Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek religion
Elaine Matthews, MA, MPhil SRF Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, see below
Lucia Nixon Senior Tutor Aegean archaeology; survey archaeology; archaeology & gender

St. Hugh's

Timothy C. B. Rood, MA, DPhil L Greek literature, esp. historiography

St. John's

Malcolm Davies, MA, DPhil TF Greek poetry, esp. Homer and Greek lyric
Nicholas Purcell, MA, FBA TF Roman social, economic & cultural history; city of Rome; Mediterranean Sea and its history
David Lee, MA (Oxon), PhD (Bristol) L Ancient philosophy, esp. Plato
Silvia Ferrara, DPhil JRF Archaeology of late Bronze Age Aegean & Eastern Mediterranean; comparative philology; Linear A & B
Olga Tribulato, MPhil, PhD (Camb) JRF Greek linguistics; comparative philology

Somerville

Lesley Brown, BPhil, MA TF Ancient philosophy esp. Plato, Aristotle
Tobias Reinhardt, MA (Frankfurt), DPhil TF Ancient rhetoric; Ancient philosophy; Latin textual criticism
Beate Dignas, MA, DPhil T Hellenistic history & the Roman East; Greek religion

Trinity

Peter G. McC. Brown, MA TF Greek & Roman comedy; Latin poetry
Laura Swift, MSt, DPhil JRF Greek tragedy & lyric poetry
Michael Inwood TF Philosophy, inc. Greek philosophy

University

William Allan, MA (Edin.), DPhil TF Greek literature, esp. tragedy & epic
Lisa Kallet, MA (Colorado), PhD (Berkeley) TF Greek history & historiography; Athens

Wadham

Stephen J. Heyworth, MA, PhD (Cantab) TF Latin poetry, esp. Propertius & Ovid; textual criticism
Ruth Parkes, MA, DPhil F Latin literature, esp. Statius & Claudian
Peter Thonemann, MA, DPhil TF Epigraphy; Roman & Byzantine Asia Minor
P.J. Stylianou, DPhil/PhD L Ancient history

Wolfson

Martin D. Goodman, MA, DPhil, FBA P&R History of the Early Roman Empire; Jews in the Graeco-Roman World
Donna Kurtz, MA, DPhil P Greek vases, anatomy & Greek art; Classical reception; history of collection; information technology applications
Martin E. Henig, MA, DPhil, DLitt, FSA L&FF Glyptics; Roman art, religion and Roman Britain
Christopher Howgego, MA ,DPhil P&F Greek & Roman numismatics
John H.W. Penney, MA, DPhil (Lecturer in Classical Philology) F Indo-European philology; languages of pre-Roman Italy
Philomen Probert, MA, DPhil F Classical philology & linguistics
Roger S.O. Tomlin, MA, DPhil, FSA F Late Roman history; Roman Britain; Roman epigraphy; Roman army
Ellen E. Rice, BA (Mount Holyoke), MA (Cantab), DPhil SRF Hellenistic history; ancient topography; military & naval history; Dodecanese Islands; Alexander the Great
C.V. Crowther, MA, PhD (Lond.) RF Epigraphy
Richard Sorabji, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA F Ancient philosophy
Henry S. Kim    
Janet DeLaine, BA, PhD (Adelaide), FSA F Roman archaeology, architecture & art
Daniel Kölligan JRF Indo-European philology, esp. Greek, Armenian

Worcester

Andreas Willi, DPhil P (See under Professors)
Peta G. Fowler, MA, DPhil FF Latin poetry; Seneca; ancient literary criticism
Josephine Crawley Quinn, MA, PhD (Berkeley) TF Hellenistic & Roman history & archaeology, esp. pre-Roman North Africa
Sabina M. Lovibond, MA, PhD TF Moral & ancient philosophy; feminist theory
Scott Scullion, BA (Toronto), PhD (Harvard) TF Greek literature, esp. tragedy; Greek religion

 


Language Teaching Team

Juliane Kerkhecker Grocyn Lecturer
Andrew Hobson Grammatikos
Richard Ashdown  
Marina Bazzani  
Juan Coderch  
Mary Whitby  

Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 391; email: enquiries@classics.ox.ac.uk


Institute of Archaeology

Further information: Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG. Tel: 01865 278 240; fax: 01865 278 254; email: administrator@arch.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/schoolarch/index.phtml/.

Classics Centre

Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 391; email: enquiries@classics.ox.ac.uk


Classics Research Projects

Beazley Archive

Mr I. Hiley Mr G. Parker
Prof. Donna C. Kurtz, MA, DPhil Dr C. Wagner
Dr T. Mannack  

Further information: Beazley Archive, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 278 083; fax: 01865 278 082; email: enquiries@beazley.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/


Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD)

 
Alan K. Bowman Director (see under Professors)
Charles V. Crowther, MA, PhD Assistant Director
David Blackman SRF


Catalogue and Database of Greek Inscriptions: Charles V. Crowther
Decipherment of Damaged Inscriptions: Charles V. Crowther
Romano-British Writing Tablets
Imaging Roman Stylus Tablets
Imaging Incised Documents: Prof. Alan K. Bowman, Prof. J.M. Brady, Dr Roger Tomlin
The Vindolanda Writing Tablets: Dr. Myrto Malouta
A New Edition of Post-403 BC Athenian Inscriptions: Prof. Alan K. Bowman, Dr C.V. Crowther, in conjunction with Liverpool University.
Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World: Prof. Alan K. Bowman, Dr C.V. Crowther, Ms M. Sasanow, Dr. Myrto Malouta, Dr. Ida Toth.

Further information: email: csad@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk

Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU . Tel: 01865 288 180; email: csad@classics.ox.ac.uk, web page: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk.


Economy of the Roman Empire (OXREP)

Prof. Alan K. Bowman
Prof. Andrew I. Wilson
Dr. Myrto Malouta
Dr. Annalisa Marzano

Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU . Tel: 01865 288 180


Lexicon of Greek Personal Names

Elaine Matthews, MA, MPhil
Richard Catling, MA
Thomas Corsten, DPhil
Fabienne Marchand, MA (Neuchâtel)

Further information: Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU; email: 1gpn@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk.


Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama

P.G. McC. Brown Dr P. Michelakis (University of Bristol)
Prof. Edith Hall (RHUL) Prof. Oliver Taplin
Dr Fiona Macintosh Ms Amanda Wrigley
Dr. Scott Scullion  

Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 210; fax: 01865 288 386; email: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/apgrd.


Medieval Latin Dictionary

Dr Theodore Christchev Dr Prydwyn Piper
Carolinne White, MA, DPhil David R. Howlett, MA, DPhil
Pamela Armstrong, MA Shelagh A. Sneddon, MA, PhD

Further Information: Room 302, Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library, Oxford, OX1 3BG. Tel: 01865 277 228; fax: 01865 277 229; email: david.howlett@bodley.ox.ac.uk.


Oxyrhynchus Papyri

Dirk Obbink, MA, PhD Director
Peter J. Parsons, MA, FBA  
Daniela Colomo, DPhil  

Further Information: Papyrology Room, Sackler Library, 1 St John St, Oxford, OX1 2LG. Tel: 01865 278 095; email: poxyinfo@classics.ox.ac.uk.


Roman Provinicial Coinage in the Antonine Period

Dr V. Heuchert
Chris Howgego, MA, DPhil

Further Information: Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, OX1 2PH. Tel: 01865 278 063; fax: 01865 278 057; email: chris.howgego@ashmus.ox.ac.uk.


Roman Inscriptions of Britain III

Roger S.O. Tomlin, MA, DPhil, FSA

Further Information: Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD. Tel: 01865 274 100; fax: 01865 274 125; email: roger.tomlin@wolfson.ox.ac.uk.


Imaging Papyri/Herculaneum Society

Dr Dirk Obbink, MA, PhD
Benjamin Weaver, PhD (Yale)
Spiro Vranjes, MSc (Oxford Brookes)

Further Information: Papyrology Room, Sackler Library, 1 St John St, Oxford, OX1 2LG. Tel: 01865 278 095; email: poxyinfo@classics.ox.ac.uk, web page: http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/


The Sphakia Survey Project

Ms L. Nixon
Simon R.F. Price, MA, DPhil

Further Information: Magdalen College, Oxford, OX1 4AU. Tel: 01865 276 117; web page: http://www.sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk.


Further information:

Oxford Colleges Admissions Office, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD. Tel: (01865) 270 207.


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